Hosiery.



ARTHUR w. NEWMAN, oF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

HOSIERY.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 13, 1912.

Application led March 15, 1910. Serial No. 549,461.

- .To all whom it 'may concern.

Be it known that I, ARTHUR W. NEWMAN,

a citizen of the United' States, residing in 'the city and county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Hosiery, of which the following is a specification.

It is well known that stocking supporters often pull upward on the stocking and strain the same so as to cause what is known asdrop stitches, These. often extend la greater portion of the length of the stocking and are not only unsightly but soon render the stocking useless or necessitates mending thereof.

My invention is designedto stop the progress of these drop stitches and it consists in providing the stocking with means forming a barrier to the further downward tearing of the stocking, said means being composed of a line of stitches which unite the courses and wales of the knit fabric along said line.

In the drawings Figure l represents a side elevation of a. portion of a stocking embodying my invention. Fig. 2 representsa vertical section thereof showing the interior of the stocking. Fig. 3 represents a longitudinal section of another form of a stocking to which the invent-ion is applicable.

. Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in the figures.

Referring to the drawings 1 represents a portion of a stocking which excepting the feature'of my invention applied thereto is of usual construction.

2 designates the barrier which is formed of a. line of stitches extending circumferentially around the web portion of the leg of the stocking a suflicient distance below/,the

the same, a stocking supporter being shown as. connected with the portion 1 in usual manner. The barrier is formed of a line of stitches which unite the courses and wales of the -knit fabric along said line wherefore should said supporter draw upwardly any of the vertical wales with which it engages and thereby disintegrate or distort the fabric of the stocking at the sides of said wales as shown at 4 in Fig. l, such disintegration or .distortion will be resisted by the line of stitches 2 which acts as a barrier to the further advance of the same, and so the main portion of the stocking especially below the knee will remain intact and free of said objectionable feature.

In Fig. 3 the hem or welt is of a lengthened order in which case the supporter is attached to the stocking between the fastening 3 of said hem or welt and the top of the stocking, the line of stitches 2 servingas a barrier to the advance of any downward raveling ordistortion of the stocking which may occur below the hem or welt fasten ing 3.

Having thus described my invention what I claim. as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

l. A stocking provided on its leg portion with a barrier for the purpose described, t-he same being composed of a line of circum-v ferentially-disposed stitches imposed on the knit fabric and adapted to unite the courses and wales of said fabric along said line.

2. A stocking provided on its leg portion with a barrier for limitingl the downward progress of drop stitches due to upward strain exerted on the stocking, said barrier beingccxposed of a circumferentially-disposed line of stitches uniting the courses and wales of the knit fabric along said line.

3. A stocking having, in the single web portion, 'one or more courses of sewing stitches extending around the web. y

4. A stocking having, belowthe welt or i n yhem, and within the single web of which the hem or welt fastening 3 and is independent f.'

leg is composed, one or more courses of sewing stitches extendlng around the web.

ARTHUR W. NEWMAN Witnesses:

JOHN A. WIEDERSHEIM, WM. CANER WIEDERSEIM. 

